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    Shamma: The Dancing Flame
    Shamma: The Dancing Flame
    Shamma: The Dancing Flame
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    Shamma: The Dancing Flame

    By Esma Ashraf

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    From the passage of dreams

    To the doorsteps of wisdom…….I imagine

    Through the landscapes of fantasy

    Beyond the heights of reality….I discover

    Under the hue of candlelight

    With an ink of tears…..I write

    Because Shamma; “A flame of the candle”

    yearns to illuminate

    determines to ignite

    and promises to love

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchway Publishing
    Release dateApr 5, 2019
    ISBN9781480874046
    Shamma: The Dancing Flame
    Author

    Esma Ashraf

    Esma Ashraf is the bilingual author of Shamma: The Dancing Flame, winner of best poetry book in 2019 by The Independent Author Book Expo. Her poems have also been published in several magazines. Ashraf is a poetic contributor for Urdu newspaper and currently is working on another project to be published in Pakistan.

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